Billy Rogers Arroyo Park is a somewhat hit-or-miss, rather under-birded site sandwiched between El Paso's Kern Place and Rim-University neighborhoods that can turn up some interesting species and makes for a pleasant, quick hike. Dirt and gravel trails for walking (and biking, on the north side of Virginia Street) wind through the arroyo on both the north and south sides of Virginia Street, which bisects the park. The northern side is more expansive, but the southern side and the area immediately surrounding the El Paso Tennis and Swim Club are more densely vegetated. Keep an eye to the sky, as many birds pass over the park and can be seen in small trees along Robinson Road above the arroyo and larger trees in the backyards of homes on Rim Road.

Common species year-round include coveys of Gambel's Quail, White-winged Doves, Ladder-backed Woodpeckers, Verdin, Northern Mockingbirds, and Lesser Goldfinches. White-crowned Sparrows and Woodhouse's Scrub-Jays are common in winter. Black-chinned Hummingbirds and Western Kingbirds are common in summer. Desert dwellers like Cactus Wren, Curve-billed and Crissal Thrashers, Black-throated Sparrow, and Pyrrhuloxia are frequent but not necessarily reliable here. Cactus Wrens are most common along the eastern/southern edge of the tennis club. Similarly, in winter, Spotted and Green-tailed Towhees and locally uncommon White-throated Sparrows sometimes pop up in the building's vicinity. 

Pants and closed-toed shoes are advisable due to close proximity of cacti and other dense, thorny vegetation to the trails. 

Parking is available in a large lot on the north side of Virginia Street in front of the swim and tennis club. 

There is no entrance fee.

The El Paso Rio Loop is a part of the Texas Parks and Wildlife's Great Texas Wildlife Trails, Far West Texas Wildlife Trail.

Dirt and gravel paths are generally easy to follow, and on the south side of Virginia Street, they are usually marked by rows of stones.

The entrances to the southern portion of the park can be difficult to spot, but one is located just to the southwest of the parking lot. A narrow trail winds northward from the parking lot, beginning right up against the tennis and swim club building and expanding out in multiple directions. Both a trail and the dry arroyo itself spill back out onto Virginia Street on the south side of the building.